EDWARD DEAN ADAMS (1846-1931)

Adams, Edward Dean (1846-1931), Banker and Power Broker, 71 Broadway, New York, New York.

He was born at Boston, Massachusetts, on April 9, 1846, son of Adoniram Judson and Harriet Lincoln (Norton) Adams.

He was educated at the Chauncy Hall School, Boston, and Norwich University, Northfield, Vermont.

In 1872 he married Fannie Amelia Gutterson at Boston. They had a daughter Ruth.

After two years of foreign travel he began his career in banking and became a partner in the firm of Richardson, Hill & Co., Boston from 1870 to 1878; the Winslow, Lanier & Co., bankers in New York City from 1878 to 1893; then as the American representative for Deutsche Bank.

American banker in New York and industrialist. Council Member of the American Numismatic Society. Adams was a New York banker and associate of J.P. Morgan. He had wide cultural interests, which included numismatics. He was on the board of the Metropolitan Art Museum and was active in the American Numismatic Society where he was on many committees involved in publishing the Society's medals. He played an important role in the coining of the various medals struck in honor of the American sojourn of Henry, Prince of Prussia, in 1902. He was well acquainted with Marschall's work; the artist having executed the Sir Francis Drake medal in 1907 for the ANS. Adams was later to privately commission Marschall to do his 1925 Truth Seeker medallion as well as a pair of medals honoring the women presidents of The American Committee for the Ravaged Regions of France He was a Fellow of the ANS in 1901. He was a patron of the ANS in 1906.

He was an active life member of the ANS since January 21, 1901.

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